THE HEART SPIRAL: AN ON-GOING JOURNEY
I encountered the original heart spiral diagram while researching energy spirals in the body. smitten with the form, which felt so accurate to me for how the heart relentlessly drives itself and the body, i began working on creating a painted version of the diagram, playing with ways to get the heart spiral effectively onto canvas.
The first version i painted in 2005 was 20” x 20”, essentially torso-size, intimate, but not tiny. The colors i intuitively mixed up and used were the colors i’ve since dubbed “the colors of love”—rose pinks, plums, violet. It’s a longer story about what happened in my emotional and physical life after that, but suffice it to say that the first heart spiral painting nourished me and gave many people solace during those hard times.
In the years since then, the heart spiral has showed up in my creative practice again and again, but recently, a whole new dimension of the heart spiral saga has unfolded for me. In the last year, I have painted a new green version of the heart spiral, on a 20”x20” canvas square, mainly because i needed it for my own healing. i wanted to be with whatever was in my heart, deep within, and let go of whatever was toxic, fearful, unhelpful. i wanted to love what i could, and let go of what i could not. This was followed by a giant deep blue floor piece, 5’x5’, which i started meditation with. As always for me, sitting with a floor piece allows me to dive INTO the geometry, into the dimensions it represents.
During a healing session, I spontaneously started breathing the heart spiral into and through me, and found it entering my consciousness in various different color realms—buttery yellow, sky blue, chocolate brown, cinnamon red, vanilla white—and then it morphed into a giant pure energy archetypal form—macro-sized, going out into space forever, and micro-sized, drilling into my system to an atomic level. This wonderful, nourishing, mind-blowing experience prompted me to start working with the heart spiral form in a much more expanded way—it was a whole new relationship with this archetypal form.
Now i could see myself standing in the center of the form: it was a multi- dimensional, cosmic presence--a vast universal archetype in manifest form. i began to visualize bringing other people into interaction with the heart spiral as a doorway, and my sister colleagues and i began meditating with it, and using it as a healing doorway for ourselves and others. My long experience working this way with other ancient geometric forms has taught me that such forms, maps really, carry vibrational fields of energy and knowledge, that we can bring into our bodies with breath and intention.
those of us who have been working with the heart spiral doorway so far have come to a number of understandings:
it’s a light bridge: a luminous lattice of light, a 5th dimensional presence. it’s a generative, sustainable, resilient form of love (with wisdom)
it’s infinitely looping love-light—with no beginning, and no end.
for more information about Margaret Lindsey’s heart spiral journey, click here